The interest in borophosphates has been steadily growing after the discovery of the first borophosphate with an open-framework structure, the ethylenediamine-templated Co II B 2 P 3 O 12 (OH)‚enH 2 . 1 Since then, a number of purely inorganic compounds of alkalimetal (or ammonium)-borate-phosphate with or without transition metal and of all dimensionalities have been made. [2][3][4][5] In addition to these, a few organically templated borophosphates, all based on vanadium and mostly low-dimensional, are known. 6 We have now taken one step further in complexity and have made the first borophosphate compound templated by a transition-metal complex, [Co(enCompounds with extended structures that are templated by transition-metal complexes are very rare. Known are only a very few aluminophosphates of this kind. They are all 1-and 2-dimensional compounds, most templated with Co(III) complexes and a few with Ir(III) complexes such as Co(en) 3 , 7 Co(tn) 3 , 8 Co-(dien) 2 , 9 Co(NH 3 ) 6 , 10 Ir(en) 3 and Ir-or Co-(1,2-diaminocyclohexane) 3 . 11 There seems to be only one compound, a gallium phosphate, that is templated by a transition-metal complex and is 3-dimensional, Co(en) 3 [Ga 2 P 4 O 13 (OH) 3 ] with an open-frame-work structure. 12 Added now to this rare collection of complextemplated compounds is the first such borophosphate, [Co(en) 3 ]-[B 2 P 3 O 11 (OH) 2 ]. The compound is made hydrothermally at 130 °C from [Co-(en) 3 ]Cl 3 ‚2H 2 O, boron phosphate (or boric and phosphoric acids), and diaminopropane or DABCO as an additive. 13 Often found, in addition to the yellow-orange crystals of [Co(en) 3 ][B 2 P 3 O 11 -(OH) 2 ], were purple crystals of the known Co(II) borophosphate with very similar composition, Co[B 2 P 3 O 12 (OH)]‚enH 2 (2). 1 The valence state of the cobalt atoms was confirmed by the negative and temperature independent magnetic susceptibility measured for the compound. 14 This is in agreement with the yellow-orange color of the crystals and the overall stoichiometry.The structure of [Co(en) 3 ][B 2 P 3 O 11 (OH) 2 ] is made of chains of borophosphate with a repeating unit of [B 2 P 3 O 11 (OH) 2 ] 3-(Figure 1) that are separated by stacks of the octahedral cobalt complex [Co(en) 3 ] 3+ (Figure 2). 15 The chains are made of corner-